A 64-year-old patient with extremely high number of white blood cells was diagnosed with T prolymphocytic leukemia. After the initiation of chemotherapy with Cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, Doxorubicin and Prednisone (CHOP), there was no improvement and the patient died within two months. Authors have made a review of the current therapy of this rare di...

By Goran Marjanović, Vesna Nikolić, Tomislav Vukićević, Lana Mačukanović Golubović, Dragana Drašković

Realization of prepositions and prepositional phrases in professional medical texts in English may affect the proper selection of certain prepositions. Also, the use of prepositions is affected by literal translation into English. Today, the English language is the basic language for communication in biomedical sciences, and one of the problems tha...

By Slobodanka Krulj, Bojana Prodanović, Stevan Trbojević

Acute exacerbations of asthma are the major cause of morbidity and mortality of the disease and are difficult to prevent and treat. Asthma exacerbations are associated with several factors, including allergen exposure, air pollution and stress, but the major cause of exacerbations is respiratory virus infection. Respiratory viral infections cause &...

By Ivana Stanković, Zorica Ćirić, Milan Radović

The aim of this paper was to determine how the needs of the Serbian health sector have been identified by the main donor and its implementation partners. The conceptual and analytical framework was synthesized and developed from the literature review and based on The Sphere Project, WHO and World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine prot...

By Sonja Novak

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of simvastatin therapy on bone mineral density in hypercholesterolemic postmenopausal women. Fifty-three women, mean age 62,92  +6,08 years treated at the Institute for Treatment and Rehabilitation Niška Banja were included into this study. All patients were divided into two groups: I gro...

By Todorka Savić, Dimitrije Janković, Irena Janković, Vladmila Bojanić, Boris Đinđić, Nataša Miladinović Tasić, Ivan Tasić

Hamartomas represent localized overgrowth of cells in the parts which are normally associated with polyps, ie. mesenhimal, stromal, endodermal and ectodermal elements. Hamartomatous polyposis syndromes carry a significant risk of developing dysplasia, adenomas, gastrointestinal carcinomas, and pancreatic carcinomas. These syndromes may be classifie...

By Vesna Živković, Svetlana Pejović, Aleksandar Nagorni, Bratislav Petrović, Aleksandar Petrović, Ivan Ilić

The most often used reperfusion strategy for patients with STEMI is still thrombolysis, but it is not the end of treatment. The aim of this paper was to show whether routine in-hospital coronary angiography and subsequent revascularization (percutaneous or surgery) after thrombolysis improve an one-year prognosis in patients with STEMI.  The s...

By Danijela Đorđević-Radojković, Zoran Perišić, Svetlana Apostolović, Miodrag Damjanović, Milan Pavlović, Dušan Milenković

There is nearly a unanimous standpoint that fissure system is the "region sensitive to caries". These difficulties imposed the consideration of efficient protection of the fissure system from caries. For final realization of this method, both adequate selection and comprehensive planned application of contemporary materials is necessary (composite ...

By Lidija Mladenović, Dragan Mladenović, Sanja Mladenović

Special clinical conditions of the heart create collaterals, primarily myocardial ischemia, hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy or atherosclerosis. The aim of the paper was to show the importance of collateral vessels in clinical practice, particularly in the rehabilitation of coronary heart disease. The paper presents a case report of a patient 62 y...

By Stojan Babić, Biljana Lazović, Zorana Vasiljević

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory process of the pancreatic parenchyma resulting in glandular autodigestion initiated by pancreatic enzymes. At the onset of AP, parenchymal edema and adiponecrosis occur (acute edematous pancreatitis). If necrosis spreads to the parenchyma, accompanied by hemorrhage and dysfunction of the gland, the conditi...

By Ivana Đorđević, Miroslav Jeremić, Miroslav Stojanović, Irena Janković, Karin Vasić, Mihajlo Djordjević